September 5, 2014
What Surprise Can We Expect This October?
Lyndon Johnson announced that he planned to halt the bombing of North Vietnam in October of 1968. Richard Nixon announced that “peace was at hand” in the Vietnam War in October of 1972. Jimmy Carter tried to announce the return...
September 4, 2014
The Over-Under for the House GOP This Fall
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, what’s the over-under for House Republicans? Politico suggested earlier this week that if the GOP won only six seats this November — which would get them to 240 — it...
September 3, 2014
A Motto for Senate Democrats
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) E Pluribus Unum is the Latin motto on the Great Seal of the United States of America. Out of many, one. The motto for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this...
September 2, 2014
Playing Politics With Ferguson
In the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, race riots convulsed the country. Chicago, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Louisville endured the worst of it. Almost 50 years hence, you can still see where the damage was...
September 1, 2014
Who Are These Guys?
Who are these guys? That’s the famous line from the classic movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It could also be asked of the Sunni insurgency that has overtaken a healthy portion of Iraq and Syria....
August 29, 2014
Does America Have a Bomb Play?
Things were getting desperate. Notre Dame was down 6 and the clock was ticking....